The Sanctioned Ones: How Iran-Russia are setting new rules

While China, keen to ward off US sanctions as long as possible, is lagging, its RIC partners Iran and Russia are doing the legwork to break the west's global financial grip.

Russia, Iran discuss linking card payment systems to overcome US sanctions

Russia is in talks with China and Iran on linking the Russian Mir card payment system with other domestic payment systems

Exclusive: Russia’s Sergey Glazyev introduces the new global financial system

The world's new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.

Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan

The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.

Russia’s judo kick to the western financial gut

Washington's sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia

A Russian wrench in Vienna halts US dash for the finish line

In an eleventh-hour shot across Vienna's bow, the Russians challenged the US 'weaponization of the dollar' with the 'weaponization of the atom.'

Lebanon faces food crisis as Central Bank reserves dwindle

The rise of wheat prices due to the Ukraine crisis coincides with a judicial investigation against the head of the Central Bank for mismanagement and corruption

Hezbollah chief blames Washington for ‘inciting’ the crisis between Russia and Ukraine

The resistance leader also criticized western media's racist approach to West Asian and African refugees of US-led wars

Follow the money: how Russia will bypass western economic warfare

The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide.

Iran-Russia hit maximum strategy

Three ain't a crowd: The Iran-Russia summit this week, concurrent with RIC military drills in the Sea of Oman, in advance of a Xi-Putin meeting in two weeks, suggests a rapidly-advancing strategic vision for the three Eurasian powers.

A silent Turkish-Russian standoff in Kazakhstan

Turkey's dream of a common army for Turkic countries may have been dashed by the quick Russian-led CSTO operation to subdue violent unrest in Kazakhstan early this year.

From Russia, With (Taliban) Love

Asia's powerbrokers dropped an Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: 'the country's reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.'

Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7

The west is nostalgically caught up with outdated 'containment' policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together.

The west’s Plan B: Secure the realm

Having failed in preserving the unipolar order, the west will resort to Plan B – reviving a bipolar world based on the ‘civilized’ west and the ‘barbarian’ rest.

Energy import agreement signed by Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria

Gas from Egypt cannot flow into Lebanese power plants from Syria without World Bank funding, or a sanctions waiver from the US, neither of which have been fully guaranteed

Saudi Arabia and Egypt sign agreements valued at $7.7 billion

Riyadh provided billions of dollars in financial support to Cairo during its economic recession, which was exacerbated due to the Russia-Ukraine war

St. Petersburg sets the stage for the War of Economic Corridors

In St. Petersburg, the world's new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way

Lebanon to sign gas deal with Egypt without US sanctions waiver

Despite the plan to import energy from Jordan and Egypt being brokered by the US, Washington has sabotaged it by refusing to issue a sanctions waiver

Will the Global South break free from dollarized debt?

In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the 'dream civilization' imposed by the 1 percent.

Iran will maintain oil exports regardless of Vienna talks outcome: Officials

Iran has been successful at finding ways to circumvent western sanctions, leading the way for nations faced with similar punitive measures

European gas extraction ship in disputed waters a ‘hostile act’: Lebanon officials

President Michel Aoun has said that negotiations to demarcate maritime borders are still ongoing

Newly-elected Lebanon MP calls for sanctions on his own country

Twitter users reacted in anger to MP Mark Daou's call for sanctions on his own crisis-ridden, poverty-stricken country

‘Any harm to Al-Aqsa Mosque will cause a regional explosion’: Hezbollah leader

Hours after Hassan Nasrallah's warning, an Israeli court upheld a ban on the upcoming 'Flag March' from entering the grounds of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Fuel prices in Lebanon reach new heights as currency continues to depreciate

Lebanon has also been hit hard by a growing food crisis exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine

Lebanese diaspora vote in general elections amid economic crisis

This marks the first election since a series of tragic domestic events, beginning with the 2019 economic collapse

Hamas and Turkey: Is the honeymoon over?

Hamas' rifts with Turkey are not unprecedented, but this time Erdogan risks losing the Palestinian resistance card to Iran, Syria and Lebanon if he continues to overplay his hand.

West Asia’s economic savior is called ‘multipolarity’

The transition from a western economic order toward a multipolar one is ushering in unprecedented economic and security advancements for West Asia.

Inflation in Turkey approaches 70 percent in April

A unions confederation calculated that food prices increased by eight percent in April alone in the capital Ankara

US behind IMF refusal to finance energy imports for Lebanon: Hezbollah official

Despite the plan to import energy from Egypt and Jordan via Syria having been brokered by Washington, US officials have so far failed to issue the necessary sanctions waiver

Israel adds China’s yuan to its reserve currency

China has long pushed for the yuan to supplant the dollar as sovereign nation's go-to reserve currency